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GE Announces Leap Engine Assembly Plant in Indiana

The company could be hiring as soon as next year as the engine moves into production.

Shown is an artist's rendering of GE Aviation's planned Leap engine final assembly facility in Lafayette, Ind. (Image: GE Aviation)

March 26, 2014

GE Aviation announced on March 26 that it will break ground this year on a new $100 million assembly plant in Lafayette, Ind., to produce the new-generation Leap engines for narrowbody airliners as part of its CFM International joint venture with France's Snecma. It expects the plant will create 200 jobs by 2020.

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